Venus will pass between the Earth and the Sun on Saturday in a rare event called an inferior conjunction, though it will be ...

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Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private mission and delivering 10 NASA instruments to the Moon. The mission ...

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The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

Home to the world's highest tides and biggest lobsters, New Brunswick will experience a partial solar eclipse at sunrise on March 29, 2025. For one eclipse-chaser, it's the ultimate moon-shot.

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It’s rare but some solar eclipses cause stunning Instagram-worthy visual effects such as a devil’s horns, a smile or diamond ring sparkling in the sky ...

Venus has been slowly getting closer to the sun and will pass roughly between Earth and our star this weekend — something astronomers call "inferior conjunction." ...

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World Meteorological Day highlights the importance of meteorology in understanding weather, climate change, and disaster ...

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...